I re-themed Tech Bottle because many of the newer WordPress themes are more versatile and visually appealing than the Constructor theme I previously used. I went with Suffusion which is designed by Sayontan. If Tech Bottle looks somewhat like another site you visit, don’t be surprised. The Suffusion theme has been downloaded nearly 5,000 times from WordPress.org.
Click around, take a look and let me know what you think either in the comments or by email – JON at TBOTTLE.COM.
Milestone announcement… I’ve officially deleted 500 spam comments from Tech Bottle. So you’ll know what you missed… cheap auto insurance, viagra, cheap health insurance, cialis, free vacations and a bunch of stuff in other languages. I’m thinking of disabling the comment system on Tech Bottle because almost all of the legitimate comments I have received on the blog were posted to Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz.
In other Tech Bottle news, readership is on the rise, especially after the Google Buzz launch and on days when I write new posts. The average number of daily readers is approximately 150 which excludes RSS and email subscribers. Across all of the social networks, the blog has around 600 followers, which may include some duplicates.
Beneath each post you will now find a list of all of the methods of reposting or rebroadcasting any post on Tech Bottle. Kudos of WordPress plugin “Light Social” for making this easy.
I decided to share some of our 2009 Google Analytics data with the readers of Tech Bottle. The data is not overly-impressive but show that this site has some potential to generate a following, especially considering it took to the blogosphere on November 10, 2009. I’ll also share with you why I write the blog and Tech Bottle’s 2010 goals (including that I’m seeking additional bloggers).
Recognizing that Facebook has a significantly greater user-base than Twitter (Zynga’s FarmVille alone has more users than Twitter, reportedly), we have added a Facebook fan page. Please consider becoming a fan of Tech Bottle on Facebook. We also will continue to push our content to @techbottle on Twitter.
All of the methods of following Tech Bottle are now listed on our Contacts page.
